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Malware warning

This was a message that they sent all City workers. Just thought that I'd pass along the same warning to you guys.

The information below came from an official government source, warning about malicious emails regarding Osama Bin Laden's death. We urge ALL City Employees to be overly cautious about ANY email regarding Bin Laden, whether it comes from an unknown source or SOMEONE YOU KNOW - DO NOT OPEN IT... It would be wise to do the same with your personal email at home as well.

Warning message we received this morning:
The events surrounding the death of Osama Bin Laden will provide an opportunity for malicious actors to create both phishing campaigns and other methods to entice users to visit websites designed to infect computers or to open files loaded with malware.

There have already been some reports of malware associated with images bearing captions along the lines of "Osama Bin Laden's Body."

Recommendations include:
* Do NOT perform any searches for images of Bin Laden's Body.
* Do NOT trust unsolicited email.
* Do NOT click links and attachments in unsolicited email messages.

According the MSNBC, the photo that has been floating around the past 24 hours is a fake anyways, so just wait until the WH decides to release the pictures. You prolly won't be able to avoid them when that time comes.

Don't put your trust in anyone on this forum, including me. You are the key to your own success.

Re: Malware warning

Re: Malware warning

Originally Posted by KSDAWG

Hmmmm.....

Nothing special about this particular event. This exact same thing happens every time something of national/worldly interest hits the internet. People are curious and in their thirst for info, they become careless with their browsing. The malware distributors are just exploiting this curiosity.

Basically, you wont notice the malware until it's too late. The most common form of it, nowadays, is the "Rogue Anti-virus" programs. They popup and warn you that infections have been found and that you need to "click here" to scan for threats. As soon as you "click here", your computer is infected. Then it proceeds to try to trick you into buying their "software" which is really just a blank shell that tricks you out of your money.

All of these are PASSIVE anti-virus programs. They only clean the computer AFTER the virus/malware/etc have infected the computer. Using programs such as Norton, Symantec, TrendMicro, McAfee are ACTIVE protection programs where they will try and keep the crap from getting on your computer in the first place.

Don't put your trust in anyone on this forum, including me. You are the key to your own success.

Spybot S&D
-It's free
-It works
-Has a feature for "real-time" protection, meaning it has active detection as opposed to passive. (Catches the junk as it comes in)

Antivirus
AVG
-There is a free version. (Google "AVG Free")
-It works
-The free version is very BASIC protection. If you want a little more protection, you can upgrade to one of there more comprehensive products.

Now let me talk about Norton and McAfee:

-They are pretty good programs.
-Very robust and semi-user-friendly interfaces.
-They can use A LOT of your machines resources whether or not a scan is running.
-Can inhibit a lot of software from running properly because of it being a little TOO secure.

I personally can't stand Norton or McAfee. For the Average Joe', any of them would be fine.